Item2138: MetaCommentPlugin

initial checkin

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Thanks MichaelDaum for this very interesting plugin.

TODO:

• Documentation
• NatSkin permissions tab

-- PaulHarvey - 27 Oct 2009

I had a couple of problems, but they are solved with the most recent version in SVN and this documentation:

   * #Set SKIN = metacomment,pattern
   * #Set DISPLAYCOMMENTS = on/off
   * #Set COMMENTFORMAT = linear, threaded or reverse
   * #Set COMMENTSTATE = on/off
   * #Set COMMENTAPPROVAL = on/off
   * #Set ALLOWCOMMENT =
   * #Set ALLOWAPPROVAL =
   
the skin setting adds the comment layer
displaycomments switches on/off all of the commenting system
defaults to off
commentformat is the layout of the comments in the given styles
commentstate on means: commenting is allowed, off discussion closed yet still displayed but without the add comment box
allowcomment is an access list of people allowed to comment
allowapproval is the access list of people allowed to approve comments
commentapproval = on switches on the approval workflow: only approved comments are displayed

Then there are 2 missing foswikiFormStep tags missing in metacomments.tmpl, see attached patch.

-- ArthurClemens - 21 Dec 2010

Hm, no. Headings aren't valid form steps in their own. I'd prefer to fix the PatternSkin css to render them appropriately.

-- MichaelDaum - 21 Dec 2010

Perhaps a padding plus a negative margin to foswikiFormStep would work.

Firefox Mac bails out with "too much recursion": jquery-1.3.2.js (line 12).

-- ArthurClemens - 21 Dec 2010

"too much recursion" - thats "normal" still running jquery-1.3.2 together with the latest jquery-ui. These are incompatible. Infact, I am expecting to see more people reporting exactly this issue when upgrading their foswiki. We will need to add some provisions to delete the old jquery-1.3.2 and switch their LoclalSite.cfg to jquery-1.4.3 automatically

-- MichaelDaum - 22 Dec 2010

OK, so I need to check in configure which version is used.

Headings aren't valid form steps in their own - actually, why is the header inside foswikiFormSteps?

-- ArthurClemens - 22 Dec 2010

The foswikiFormSteps is the complete wrapper for the form section. The title is part of it. That's why it is inside as well. Sometimes a form is made up of several logical sections. While all of the form is in one foswikiFormSteps div, separate sections deserve a title for each. So we will also end up with a h2 inside foswikiFormSteps2.

-- MichaelDaum - 23 Dec 2010

I have recoded the foswikiFormSteps styles, so text can be placed outside of foswikiFormStep.

-- ArthurClemens - 28 Dec 2010

Seems fine now even on PatternSkin.

-- MichaelDaum - 25 Mar 2011